[AGreatPer]

There is no reason for your post to be removed. This still scares the heck out of me:

"Bush's response was anger, Wilkinson said.

"He said that if the current operatives working for the CIA couldn't prove the story was true, then the agency had better find some who could," Wilkinson said. "He said he knew the story was true and so would the world after American troops secured the country."

This scares me if the Pres went with it on his own judgement rather than true info. This could be monumental if there is another witness than Wilkenson.

william McKinley, you are just doing what we're supposed to do here, find the truth.

[William McKinley]

Yeah, well, we will see what comes up when the followup gets written.

As for what is scaring you, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. A President who would be ruthless enough to act in the manner described would also be ruthless enough to make sure some evidence was found once we secured the country; in other words, he would have planted it. The fact that we haven't found anything tells me Bush is not that Machiavellian, and the described conversation never happened.

If Thompson is telling the truth, then that tells me that Wilkinson is lying.

[PhiKapMom]

Personally I don't believe the CIA source at all. First of all he leaked information that is highly classified so why would I trust him. Second that is not President Bush's nature to go with something that is not verified! You have to remember his Dad was CIA Director so he learned from his Dad!

This story smelled before Thompson came on this thread and it smells now!

[rwfromkansas]

I sent about 5 questions to be forwarded on to Wilkinson, which Doug says has been done. If he states in a response to one of my questions that he believed Bush was reckless in his decision to run with the info, I will have to seriously consider doing a story on it myself. But I would have to find a second source for confirmation, somebody else at the meeting. As a college journalist, this would be an almost impossible task.

Quite frankly, I believe probably there was other info he had which led Bush to believe the report was accurate.